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Indonesian forest fires that choked a swath of Southeast Asia with a smoky haze for weeks last year may have caused more than 100,000 deaths, according to new research that
Laughter and lively chatter filled a room at a modest apartment in Tokyo one recent Thursday night as more than two dozen kids and volunteers gathered around tables laden with curry,
Searchers in Thailand have recovered 18 bodies and are continuing to look for at least 12 people missing from a heavily loaded boat that sank in a river over the
A Norwegian man freed by militants after a year of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines described the ordeal yesterday as “devastating,” carrying a backpack with a bullet hole as
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been honored as the 2016 humanitarian of the year by students and faculty at the Harvard Foundation. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate gained
Suspected rebels using guns and grenades sneaked into a crucial army base in Indian-controlled Kashmir early yesterday and killed at least 17 soldiers in the deadliest attack on a military
A wing flap that washed ashore on an island off Tanzania has been identified as belonging to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, Australian officials said yesterday. The flap was found in June
A former Filipino militiaman testified before the country’s Senate yesterday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still a city mayor, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad
Two foreign tourists were killed and about 20 other people were injured in an explosion yesterday on a speedboat that was ferrying them from the Indonesian tourist island of Bali
Aung San Suu Kyi’s latest visit to Washington signals her transformation from long-imprisoned heroine of Myanmar’s democracy struggle to a national leader focused on economic growth. President Barack Obama will meet with Suu
Police in Mongolia yesterday announced the arrest of a suspect in the killing a British tourist in a rare case of violent crime in the landlocked Asian nation. The 31-year-old man,
For centuries, the sleepy valley nestled in the Indian Himalayas remained a hidden Buddhist enclave forbidden to outsiders. Enduring the harsh year-round conditions of the high mountain desert, the people of
Australia’s prime minister introduced legislation to Parliament yesterday that would allow a public but non-binding vote on gay marriage early next year. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a marriage equality advocate who
The United States on yesterday sent two nuclear-capable supersonic bombers streaking over ally South Korea in a show of force meant to cow North Korea after its recent nuclear test,
Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s cabinet has risen to a two-year high in separate opinion polls published this week by public broadcaster NHK and the Yomiuri newspaper. The Abe
Government plans to hold an opinion poll in February on whether gay marriage should be legalized in Australia suffered a blow yesterday when a gay government senator announced that he opposed the
Police arrested nearly 400 people for looting and vandalism in India’s information technology hub of Bangalore after a curfew was imposed to quell violence set off by a court ruling
More than 200 of Cambodia’s nearly extinct royal turtles were released yesterday in muddy waters at a new breeding and conservation center that was built in hopes of keeping the
Singapore says it is investigating the strain and severity of its locally transmitted Zika virus, amid a rising number of cases. Health Minister Gan Kim Yong told Parliament yesterday that it
Relatives of some of the 239 passengers and crew on missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 called yesterday for more of its possible debris to be examined to define a new
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